The 5Rhythms comprise a simple movement practice designed to release the dancer that lives in everybody, no matter what its shape, size, age, limitations and experience. To find your dance is to find yourself, at your most fluid and creative level. While the practice itself is the essence of simplicity, it has the power to catalyze deep healing and creative expression. The primary teaching of this work is: If you put the psyche in motion, it will heal itself.

The 5Rhythms are:

Flowing

EarthLet it inReceptiveFluidFlexibleGroundedNurturing

Staccato

FireLet it outExpressiveManifestationClarityPowerTruth

Chaos

WaterLet it goSurrenderFreedomReleaseUnpredictableShake it out

Lyrical

AirLet it happenEffortlessSpaciousCreativityDiscoveryLighten up

Stillness

EtherLet it beSpiritEmptinessReverenceIntegrationReturning home

These 5 Rhythms come together to create the Wave, a movement meditation practice. Rather than having steps to follow, each rhythms is a different energy field in which you find your own expression and choreography, thereby stretching your imagination as well as your body. Each rhythm is a teacher, and you can expect to meet different and sometimes unknown aspects of yourself as your dance unfolds and your practice of the rhythms deepens over time.

The 5 Rhythms practice draws from indigenous and world traditions, Gestalt therapy, the human potential movement, and transpersonal psychology. 5Rhythms is a soul journey. By moving the body, releasing the heart and freeing the mind, one can connect to the essence of the soul, the source of inspiration in which an individual has unlimited possibility and potential.

"Put your psyche in motion, and it will heal itself." ~ Gabrielle Roth